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[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 8 Mar. 2/1: The affair took the form, so dear to the students, of an old-fashioned ‘beer bust’. Forty-five gallons of this foaming beverage were place on draught [and] not a guest departed until the last drop of beer had been drawn.
at beer bust (n.) under beer, n.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 14 Oct. 1/5: ‘Oh, go home and soak your head’.
at go soak your head! (excl.) under soak, v.1
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 29 June 10/5: Perhaps you didn’t even recognize him. That famous cootie garage has been removed. The hermit has come from behind his ambush.
at cootie garage (n.) under cootie, n.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 4 Dec. 41/7: You can choose slickum for the hair.
at slickum, n.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 24 Nov. 9/2: The swankier swilleries even issued membership cards.
at swillery, n.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 25 July 2/6: And how much does it cost to be a weekend hippie? Hansen sells wigs for $85, mustaches for $45 [...] and a full beard for $125.
at weekend, adj.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 4 Mar. Caffeine [...] a common ingredient in [...] stay-awake pills: .
at stay-awake (n.) under stay, v.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 9 Sept. D1/4: Chase and Goldberg bantered about some star who floated an ‘air biscuit’ and stunk up a studio.
at float an air biscuit (v.) under air biscuit, n.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 29 Nov. 44/5: It must be obvious even to a borg with a few chips short of a circuit board that they didn’t succeed.
at couple of chips short of... under ...short of..., adj.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 8 Mar. 44/4: He got his first squeeze box(also called [...] the ‘stomach Steinway’) for Christmas 1956.
at stomach Steinway (n.) under stomach, n.
[US] Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) 18 Apr. 11/3: Consider ‘bumped off.’ [...] Not so poteic as ‘sleeps with the fishes’.
at sleep with the fishes (v.) under sleep, v.
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